Book description
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert s
brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe
to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and
fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its
beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at
Versailles in 1789, right through to the coup d etat that brought
Napoleon to power ten years later. In the process he explains the
drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and
accessible manner he has made his trademark.
Writing in The Times, Richard Holmes described the book as A
spectacular replay of epic action while The Good Book Guide called
it, Unquestionably the best popular history of the French Revolution .
